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Every Indian wants surgical strikes against Pakistan but not a fake one: Nirupam

The Indian Army recently carried out surgical strikes across LoC in PoK.

A massive controversy was triggered today over Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam's remark on surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. Nirupam in a tweet said, "Every Indian wants surgical strikes against Pakistan but not a fake one."

A massive controversy was triggered today over Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam's remark on surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

Nirupam in a tweet said, "Every Indian wants surgical strikes against Pakistan but not a fake one."

"I respect the Indian armed forces, but the way the political gains are being usurped by the BJP it is wrong. They have put up posters across the country claiming that only the BJP had the guts to do it" said Nirupam adding that it was during the Congress party rule as well that three surgical strikes had been undertaken but such kind of propaganda was not done.

The BJP immediately launched an attack on the Opposition, asking how can the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party question the Indian Army.

Modi lead government had earlier slammed Arvind Kejriwal and P Chidambaram for asking for the video evidence of the surgical strikes conducted by the Indian Army. Kejriwal had on Monday "saluted" PM Modi for the surgical strikes with a caveat: that he must come up with the video of the Indian Army's operation to "expose Pakistan's false propaganda" on the strikes.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said "Kejriwal was making headlines in Pakistan" for his doubts over Indian Army's operation. "Kejriwal must not mix politics with national security," he said.

The Indian Army recently carried out surgical strikes across the Line of Control in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Tension escalated between India and Pakistan following the attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir last month.